Every month the teams who run our four CarePoints in Namibia write to us about the children in their care. Here is what they told us about April.
Keetmanshoop: graduates coming back to help
The rains brought leaks in the CarePoint and the staff house, now repaired. One of the CarePoint’s own graduates, who has finished a six-month welding course at the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology, came back to help repair the broken tiles in the dining hall and put up safety signs. Two more graduates are studying to be electricians.
Attendance is up after the caregivers phoned and visited families. In the May school holidays the children who stay in town come to the CarePoint every day, with an hour of chess each day for their concentration, and a holiday programme planned with the other CarePoints. Namib Mills has started giving again: 50 kg of maize meal and pasta.
Oshikuku: 159 children and a parents’ meeting
Oshikuku now cares for 159 children, with 12 staff. Attendance is steady, and the team thanks the parents and guardians who make sure their children come. The children born between January and April had their birthday party, with potato salad, chicken and cake. The first parents’ meeting of the year covered the children’s behaviour and hygiene, and what Christ’s Hope is and does.
The Ark: 22 birthdays and 40 bags of potatoes
All 74 children at The Ark sat their first-term exams. In April the CarePoint celebrated 22 birthdays, from January to March, with a card and a small gift for every child, dancing, and cake. A local farmer gave 40 bags of potatoes. A hailstorm on 23 April damaged homes in the area. The CarePoint’s building and the children’s and staff’s homes came through safely.
Georgie Wilson: 21 birthdays and a growing garden
The caregivers helped the children prepare for their exams, and the attendance of a few children who had been missing days has improved. The vegetable garden is growing well after this year’s rain. Twenty-one children celebrated their birthdays, with gifts, dancing, words of encouragement and cake.
Please pray with us
- For the children who are unwell or grieving, and for their families.
- For the graduates who are training for work, that they find good jobs.
- For the people whose homes were damaged in the April hailstorm.
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Sponsoring a child costs £40 a month. All of it goes to the child’s CarePoint, and it covers the full cost of their care: food, healthcare, schooling, and the care and teaching at the CarePoint.